Murder, slavery, exploitation. It's really that simple. The reason you can't imagine being that bothered is because you haven't yet realised that animals are every bit as sentient and conscious as we are. The conditions in the factory farms, in the auction houses, in the slaughterhouses, are absolutely untanable and not governed by ANY anti-animal abuse laws. Those animals live and die in horror, all because some people like to chew on flesh. I used to do it. I used to love it. I used to think 'Oh if I buy humanely raised meat then it's fine'. But it's not. It really isn't. It is not ok to use and kill others for our pleasure. (add in the environmental and health stuff and you have a full trifecta for reasons to go vegan, but those weren't my primary driving forces so I'm leaving them out here)

Well, I’m glad that there are kind hearted, noble people who are willing to give up on meat, and I honestly hope more people will choose to do that in the future. I just can’t do it. Probably proves that I’m less civilized and intelligent than you people, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case. I do believe that a lot of animals are sentient and can feel pain and fear and love just like humans do because I’ve had pets and interacted with farm animals, but I just can’t make the connection in my mind and feel bad about eating them. Honestly, if eating humans is legal and everyone is raised on human flesh, I’d eat humans too, you know? Not because it’s the right thing to do or it’s not cruel, or that it’s necessary for our survival, it’s just that you can’t really make yourself feel that something you’ve been doing for all your life is wrong, even if you know that It’s wrong or there’s no good reason for keep doing it.

Then you may well have sociopathic tendencies. I have a friend who speaks the same way and he fully admits his sociopathy with regards to the empathy side. That's OK. Some people are sociopaths. But even sociopaths have got to give a shit about their own survival, right? And if we don't stop this madness, the environmental destruction that factory farms cause will kill us all. It's not even an exaggeration.

I’ve been seen by multiple psychiatrists and none of them think that I have sociopathic or psychopathic tendencies. I’m just not one of those extremely empathetic people, probably because I’m on the spectrum, probably because I’m somewhat obtuse. And I don’t have much foresight. You can probably convince a smarter, more sensible and empathetic person to eat less meat or even switch to a vegan diet if you really try because that shit kinda makes sense, but not me. I can’t even convince myself to eat something that I’ve never had before.

The thing is, with a high quality photo of a human kid, you can probably tell that they are in distress if they are caged up and mistreated, and feel sad or disturbed accordingly. However, it’s not that easy to tell if the animals in fuzzy gifs are in distress or not. So it’s easier to find them cute.

See, I would never do this type of thing to a kid, no matter how funny it may seem. Yeah, the kid could get over it like you clearly have...but it probably really hurt when it happened. Imagine believing that your own Mother just flushed herself down the toilet, leaving you all alone. That would fucking hurt.

You are a good person. Doing that might seem silly and funny to adults, but kids might get really sad and upset because of it. My mom used to threaten to leave me or to commit suicide all the time, and that was definitely upsetting for young me.

I always feel that the notion of hell is unreasonably cruel. I don’t think anyone deserves eternal torture and punishment, even if they committed extremely horrible crimes. I can’t imagine wishing that kind of cosmical, ridiculous suffering that human beings can’t even comprehend on anyone.

This is really nice and she’s a nice kid for helping out and all but I feel like she’s having her childhood stole from her. I bet this is something she has to do a lot and probably more in one day to help, which is actually quite sad.

There are a lot of similarly heartbreaking cases in china, and I just can’t see how they are touching or beautiful. A 5 or 6 yr old kid being forced to take care of an adult parent and themselves at the same time because there’s no resources or social services to help them is depressing as fuck, and it’s most likely not good for the kid

I mean, what amount of genetic fuckup do you need to end up with a person addlepated fuckvit with so little ability to have any brain activity in the emotion zone. This is a good example of an individual so selfish they wont even want to rise their son, instead choosing his little sister and emotionally murdering him for the rest of his life. Fuck this medium-sized cantaloupe cuntknob.

Or the boy might have medical or mental issues that the parent(s) are not trained or equipped to deal with, and his sister has fewer issues and is more compatible with the household. If they know that they can’t take good care of him, it’s perfectly reasonable for them to choose to not take him in.

I have a student who has four siblings, all living with different people (two with family members, the other three in foster care) because no one wanted (or could, I don’t know all the specifics) to take all five of them.

To a certain degree, I get it. If you already have your own kids, taking in three or four or five is overwhelming at best. It’s a tricky situation.

But if there’s only two kids and you decide you’re just keeping one? That’s cold.

I find it crazy there are people that want to claim animals aren't capable of the same types of emotions we are, and like everything they do is a program and learned behavior from us. 'Fuck outta here, just open your eyes ffs and use your empathy.

To be fair, people who lack empathy can’t really will themselves into being empathetic people. The empathy is just not there, and from their point of view, they really don’t feel that animals are capable of emotions the same way that humans are. It’s kinda weird of you to say things like “just open your eyes and use your empathy” to them, it’s kinda like telling a paralyzed person to just get up and run around.

Not to ruin the horror of it but with alzheimers patients it's actually usually better to go with whatever they say. If they ask when someone's coming, instead of saying that person is dead, say, "well when do you think they're coming?" And whatever they say you can just be like yeah that sounds right and then repeat that back whenever they ask again.

Same. I can understand why people do that, since making sure the patients are as happy and stable as the can be is an important thing, but I really don’t want people do that to me if I ever develop Alzheimer’s.

Suicide was the end of her pain but the start of very deep pain for the family. Her actions were extremely selfish and shameful. Hanging yourself in your kids room, how fucking stupid and damaging could you be? And lastly to not even go to a doctor and check it out before making medical conclusions is mind boggleing. Probably got here diagnosis from WebMD.